I did fire once. Don't worry, no bullets involved. It was an empty shot. We even saw a demonstration of how soldiers advance through the battlefield.

I'm told empty shots can damage the firing pin due to inertia and it not encountering resistance (i.e the bullet casing in its path). Even leaving that aside, this is not how firearms are supposed to be handled. This is worrying to say the least.

tiny 8-year-olds held an M16 in their tiny hands, so cute

Maybe it's just because I'm a big ol' leftist hippy, but this really disturbs me.

@DiscoStuI seriously don't understand the issue here. I'm just saying that when children carry guns they're cute. They're cute with everything, except some things of course (don't mention them).Meh, maybe we just had a misunderstanding, as always :/

While I do understand that firing without ammo somewhat damages the weapon, it was still OK because those were old, very old weapons, and they weren't being used by the soldiers. 1 of the sniper rifles jammed, but it was not a problem, because it wasn't supposed to be used.

I clearly knew what I was doing, I clearly knew that the weapons were prepared, prepared to be used by people who don't know anything "real" about weapons.

On any other occasion, such as finding a gun in my basement, I would simply check whether the weapon is loaded, I would turn on the safety switch, and, if needed, I would give it to someone who would do something about it.

At the event, we were told a story about a teenager who found a rocket launcher in his addict. He got very excited about it, and pretended being Rambo, and actually fired it. Guess what happened?

He turned it in the wrong direction, and fired, so it hit a wall behind him, and he lost his right arm. Poor fellow

Doesn't make it right for him to be there.Does America not have any kind of contingency for getting rid of someone that the public has no confidence in? Seems like that will have to be invoked sooner or later if there is.

Tell that to immigrants, refugees, women, the environment, trade partners, foreign leaders and Mexicans.A generation of kids just grew up with a black man in one of the most powerful seats in the world, sticking up for individual rights and campaigning for the environment.Now a generation of kids will grow up with an entitled manbaby who promotes xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, pettiness, dishonesty and violence.

I don't understand the fuss. He'll be out before you know it and little will have changed.

Well I mean in his first week and a half he cut funding for international aid programs, signed an order for a wall that will put the US (which many countries have tied their currency to) into debt, banned refugees for entry, including those who have already been through a 2-year vetting process, banned normal travelers from various countries, threatened war with 2 countries, one of which is a nuclear power (Mexico and China) and sent Seal Team 6 into Yemen to commit actual war crimes which resulted in the death of at least one comfirmed child and countless civilians.

I appreciate your optimism, but If he does all that in less than 2 weeks, all of which affects the outside world, imagine the kind of havok he could wreak in his full 4-year term.

Huh, it hasn't changed almost anyhow, except I added a blanket under my table, on the wooden floor, to avoid getting cold.

So yeah, that pretty much represents my work conditions.The only problem I have here is that I share my room with my grandma, but that's not such a big deal, except it limits me from using the voice chat on Discord